Odds and Ends
Roderick Long had a pretty good post a few days ago that you shouldn’t miss — Against Anarchist Apartheid, regarding the usual squabbles. Notable also is the combination defense and rebuttal of Long’s piece by William Gillis, who points out where we Rothbardians are frequently in the wrong. Gillis is mostly right in my opinion, and that’s largely due (again, in my opinion) to most Rothbardians neither sufficiently grasping agorist class theory nor the anti-political, action-based outlook derived as a consequence of Konkin’s theory of revolution). But that’s just me. Notable also is that the word “anti-capitalism” seems to be a sort of “unification” word between some anarchists and anarchist-friendly radicals who aren’t quite there on the A-word yet. As Gillis notes, in much antagonism over a word, it is frequently overlooked that so-called anarcho-”capitalists” (and agorists even more so) are actually anti-capitalist if by capitalism one means the present system of cartelized statist corporatism skewed in favor of a politically favored plutocracy.
Karl Hess — As others have noted, YouTube now hosts the Oscar winning 1980 documentary Karl Hess: Toward Liberty, detailing Karl’s journey from hard right to far left. All three sections follow.
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In Orlando, FL an anarchist has been arrested for feeding the homeless.
Pittsburgh police recently attacked and brutalized anti-war protestors.
It has been revealed that at a 2002 protest the FBI detained anarchists and/or people suspected of being anarchists solely because they were wearing black clothes — and there was a coverup involved.
Dragon Skin — The ongoing scandal over the failure of the US Defense Department to adopt superior Dragon Skin soft body armor for soldiers, in lieu of the early 90’s vintaged Interceptor brand armor produced by a politically favored vendor, illustrates one of the key weaknesses of statist corporatism in comparison to a genuinely free market (i.e. anarchy). People can rail about corrupt businesses all they want, and this is often justified — but at the end of the day, it’s the State that creates and maintains corrupt and abusive monopoly. This is not something that can be reformed away, though. Rather, problems of this sort are inherent in political government of all sorts. To the elite of the political class, corruption is a feature, not a bug. Provision of (actual) defense services via enterprise means in a stateless free market would subject defense services providers to competitive discipline that political government sheilds itself (and corruption) from via its coercively maintained monopoly position.
Watch what Dragon Skin can do during this seven minute video of a Dragon Skin vest taking forty (40) rounds of AK-47 7.62-mm (7.62×39mm military ball) ammo at 20 feet, followed by one hundred fifty (150) rounds of 9-mm submachine gun (9×19mm military ball) ammo at 10 feet — with zero penetrations! You’ll puke from irony the next time you hear the phrase “Support the Troops” (if you don’t do so already):
Michael Chertoff — Finally, will somebody please advise Michael “The British Are Coming” Chertoff to not drop acid before watching Southpark?
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